Instructional Design Courses

Data, Economics, and Design of Policy: International Development

Examine global poverty through microeconomics, randomized evaluations, data analysis for social scientists, foundations of development policy, and political economy of economic development.

• MITx Online
• 48 weeks, 12-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Data, Economics, and Design of Policy: Public Policy

Evaluate the effectiveness of policies with data and evidence, covering microeconomic theory, randomized evaluations, data analysis for social scientists, energy economics, and applied economics.

• MITx Online
• 48 weeks, 12-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems

MIT graduate course reading blockchain, smart contracts and encryption through economic theory—contract theory, mechanism design, monetary theory—to redesign financial infrastructure and its regulation.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Engineering Innovation and Design

A project-based engineering course built around a tested 10-step iterative design process, stakeholder research, and delivering compelling in-person presentations.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit

A faculty-facing toolkit for integrating climate justice content and instructional approaches into introductory undergraduate courses across disciplines.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design

Learn traditional boat design by carving wooden half-hull models, translating forms into lines plans, and comparing vessel designs with naval architecture methods.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Supply Chain Design

Learn to design and optimize supply chain networks while connecting operational decisions to financial metrics, supplier strategies, planning systems, and stakeholder communication.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Sustainable Building Design

Explore scientific principles and technologies for comfortable indoor environments that reduce building energy use and climate impacts.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Futur

Typography & Design

12 ratings

Learn ten practical rules for controlling graphic design layouts through functional typography, hierarchy, flow, legibility, grouping, and contrast.

• YouTube
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to UI Design

5 ratings

Learn industry-standard user interface design processes, core design theories, and the psychology and human factors behind interfaces, through case studies of good and costly bad design.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Design and Make Infographics (Project-Centered Course)

961 ratings at Coursera

Design and build a content-rich infographic in Adobe Illustrator: plan and sketch a layout, make bar, line and pie charts, maps, and apply type, color and grid.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interaction Design Capstone Project

164 ratings at Coursera

Redesign an interface or product end to end: needfinding, brainstorming, paper and interactive prototypes, heuristic evaluation, in-person user testing, and A/B results analysis.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

126 ratings at Coursera

Build predictive models in Python: fit regressions, clean and analyze features in Jupyter notebooks, classify with KNN, logistic regression and SVMs, and implement gradient descent.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Interaction Design

4046 ratings at Coursera

Generate design ideas, prototype them quickly, gather feedback from users and clients, and apply principles of visual design, perception, and cognition to build technologies people enjoy.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 8 courses

Ethics and Trial Design

1 rating

An overview of ethical and regulatory considerations in designing clinical trials involving human subjects, from randomization and blinding to Phase I studies.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate